Tony Romo Gets Some Competition

Dak Prescott has played two preseason games and he’s pretty much already Jesus. Early reaction bias must be noted, but it’s hard to look at what he’s done so far and not be incredibly impressed. And angry. Stupid Cowboys, getting lucky on their drafting. The fun times of Tony Romo’s injuries and failures appears to be coming to an end. Romo has had such a strange career in terms of public relations. He came out of the gate like a hero, then fumbled a snap and earned a choker moniker for a decade thanks to some unfortunate game results and lack of team success. He kept at it, slowly building his resume as an excellent QB while so many people refused to actually look at him objectively because every once in a while he’d drop a huge stinker.

It wasn’t fair to Romo. His stinkers kept him from being known in the elite category even though he’s more than capable of playing at that level. He finally gained enough respect from fans to have people acknowledge he was actually good, and by then his body had started to suffer bad injuries. Last year it feels like Romo was finally, truly, appreciated for the QB he is, and it’s because the loaded Cowboys couldn’t win a damn game without him. His absence finally showed his worth. Now, with the way Prescott is playing, I wouldn’t be surprised if some people start calling for Prescott to start by the regular season. Romo going down was a death sentence for the Boys last year, but now it looks like it could be possibly a good thing. Early reaction bias of course.

Last time a rookie QB set pre-season on fire like this was Russell Wilson, which for Dak is pretty much a great comparison, because Russ is very good and will be top 3 once a few of the old farts like Brees retire (and if Russ isn’t murdered by the lack of O-line). Russ of course only had to beat out Matt “6 TDs on the Lions” Flynn for the starting spot. Dak isn’t getting past Romo on the depth chart, but I guarantee you if Romo has a bad “Romoception” style game, people are gonna call for him.

I just hope Dak actually sucks so that when Romo goes down we can laugh at the Cowboys flounder about like a upturned turtle again. I’d pray for another 8-8 season but that might win the NFCEast so maybe not.

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First, this made me laugh so loud I woke my wife and kids up. Thank you for that– been a rough week.

Second, and unrelated to the first, I would posit that Wilson is already top 3, behind Brady and Rodgers, and on par with Roethelsomething and Newton. Brees has taken an enormous step back. Wilson is already better than Flacco, and I would put him significantly ahead of Luck. I’m fine with saying #4 or #5 behind Newton and/or Roethelsomething, but I’d personally take Wilson over either. Eli could also bounce back, and have an all-2009-4th-quarter-season, and maybe one or two almost were break out and have an outstanding year, but Wilson… I will forever hate John Fox for pushing for (and ultimately persuading Elway to take) Osweiler instead of Wilson in the draft.

How can you say Brees has taken steps back? He threw for 4900 yards last year, missing a game, and playing on a torn plantar fasciitis for 10 of the games he did play. Brady and Rodgers are indisputably 1 & 2, so we agree on that. But in no way is Brees taking steps back yet. He’s the only player worth his shit on a bad team. That’s not his fault. Brees is still top 3, at least until he goes a season without 5k yards (or where he would’ve easily gotten 5k if he was actually healthy all 16).

Even though Wilson is better than Luck? People don’t even realize that Wilson, 2014 aside has actually been the better player so far. Same with Newton. Newton is just larger and probably has the better arm. Not that I think Newton and Luck have already reached their potential.

If I had to make a bet, I’d say that Romo starts all this year, assuming he’s healthy – which one would hope he can stay given the line blocking for him – but Prescott takes over in 2017, unless Romo has an MVP-type season. If he does have that MVP season, or if he wins a Superbowl, he’ll go into 2017 as the starter still, but at that point, his days will be numbered, and Jason Garrett, if he’s smart, will look for an excuse to sit him for Dak. He’ll be approaching 38 in 2017, Prescott will have had at least a solid year to learn the system, Dallas would save $16m over his 2018 salary by cutting him. Tony has two years left at most, but he’s probably out of Dallas after this year. Dak looks too good and there are too many legitimate reasons to want to move along(Age, injuries, cap space, etc.)

It’s weird to think that Romo’s going to be gone soon, from the Cowboys and maybe from the league. We’re a few years away from Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan, and Matt Stafford being the elder statesmen of the league at QB, while Wilson, Cam, and Luck become long-established veterans instead of young quarterbacks just hitting their primes. Makes me feel old.

As a madden mobile player we have this thing called Headliners,so for every week theres 5 special players that had good moments during that week and you put them in a set for an elite that did amazing in a game, long story short we had Christian Ponder somehow beat dak’s 4 TD game because he got a 30 yard TD.

I feel terrible for Romo. He’s always the one QB besides Brady who I’m almost always rooting for. Love to see the guy get a ring to shut his haters up. He’s always deserved so much better and it’s sad to see that his days are probably numbered in Dallas.

Romobyl is the 2nd best unstated qb since the merger (Warren moon is #1), Pescott is the new Tim Tebow (in a good way), Dallas will go like 11-5, Skins at 7-9, G-men at 6-10 again, Eagles at 3-13/2-14.
Today is my first day of college, wish me luck.

Oh please spare me. Literally every year someone does this in preseason and it never amounts to anything. People only remember Russell because it was the one time it actually amounted to something, and the only reason Prescott is being talked about by everyone is that he plays for the fucking Cowboys. I can’t wait for real football to start and all the nonstories like this one to go away.